Reply 20 of 23, by emendelson
I finally got the background feature of this system working, though it's still cluttered up with things left over from the system I based it on. Here's an example of how it works.
Open the DOSBoxApp in the Script Editor, and near the top of the AppleScript, change the property useDaemon from "false" to "true".
When you start up the DOSBoxApp it will create a folder named Printout and a couple of subfolders inside its C: drive.
At the DOSBox prompt, do this:
cd Printout
echo emulate > LOOKUP.TMP
If I've done this correctly, the OS X Dictionary will open and define "emulate".
I've written other features that run commands in OS X, and (though I haven't tested them on this system) print PCL output. Again, I don't know if this is useful for games, but it could presumably be adapted to create directories, etc. The background script is in the AppleScript bundle, named dosboxappfolder.scpt; feel free to add features to it.